The previous time around, it was supposed to be the last time. Billed as The Final Destination, the 2009 movie was the first shot in HD 3D and apparently a bloody full stop on the series. The critics weren't all that kind, but it did well enough at the box office to mean that, inevitably, here we are again.

And, if it isn't broke, the FD team certainly aren't aren't going to risk twiddling with it. 1) Opening disaster. 2) Premonition ends. 3) Death picks off our survivors one-by one. The fun, as always, comes in the death set-pieces, a daft mix of Mousetrap and Casualty. It's every bit as in-your-face as the Saw flicks, but without that sadistic element.

Our main batch of doomed youths this year are trainee chef Sam (Nicholas D'Agosto) and his girlfriend Molly (Emma Bell), as well as best mate Peter (Miles Fisher) and his gymnast girlfriend Candice (Ellen Wroe). Joining them for his brief, ridiculous return to the series is Tony 'Candyman' Todd as a coroner who breathily warns our group that "death doesn't like to be cheated". That's unless you manage to bump off someone in your place - death's apparently more of a numbers man than one for names and faces.

The opening bridge disaster is full-on mayhem. As a sequence it's remarkably similar to the middle half hour gorefest in Piranha 3D. It's all slicing, dicing, squelching, squishing, burning.... in pokey 3D! After that the individual death scenes do their usual bit of chucking in some red herrings, building up expectation and then half-fulfilling it before killing off our poor protagonist with a didn't-see-that-coming flourish.

Bones, knives, lasers, acupuncture needles, the odd eyeball and the rest stick out in their stereoscopic way. If any movie should be in 3D, it should of course be a Final Destination flick, but even here it seems pretty pointless. It doesn't make the death scenes any more entertaining than those in FD-FD3, and you miss the vividness of squelch that good old-fashioned 2D has.

Regardless, it's all good fun. The humour is pretty lame, but still manages to raise a smirk now and again. While the thought of sitting through Final Destination 6 and 7 raise the prospect of a much less entertaining death by boredom, the thrills and spills speed by for the 90-odd minutes until, appropriately, we're right back where we began.